PHOTO REQUEST - FILE NO: 00-0478

STORYLINE/ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION: Electro-fishing at Everglades Holiday Park with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission fisheries biologist Jon Fury. Fury puts an electric charge in the water that stuns fish, causing them to float to the surface where he can net them, measure and weigh them, and release them alive. The data is useful for following trends in fish populations.

#34: Jon Fury examines a largemouth bass with lesions. Despite the sores, many of the bass are healthy. The sores can be the result of hits from wading bird beaks, other fish, alligators, stress and disease.